Associate Professor Emilian Kavalski

Emilian Kavalski is associate professor of global studies. Prior to joining the Institute for Social Justice, Emilian worked at the University of Western Sydney and has held research positions at Academia Sinica (Taiwan), Aalborg University (Denmark), the Institute for the International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Ruhr Universitat-Bochum (Germany), the Rachel Carson Center (Germany), and the NCHU Graduate Institute of International Politics (Taiwan), as well as the Andrew Mellon Fellowship position at the American Institute for Indian Studies (New Delhi, India), and the I.W.Killam Postdoctoral position at the Department of Political Science, University of Alberta (Canada). Emilian‘s research has focused on post-colonial literature, European politics, International Theory, Asian affairs, and the post-humanities.

He is currently working on (i) the encounter of International Relations with life in the Anthropocene, especially the conceptualization of and engagement with non-human actors; and (ii) the nascent Asian normative orders and the ways in which they confront, compliment, and transform established traditions, norms, and institutions. Emilian contends that in both these areas the application of Complexity Thinking has important implications for the ways in which global life is approached, explained, and understood. Emilian is also the book series editor for Ashgate’s ‘Rethinking Asia and International Relations‘ series.

Kavalski, E. (2007), ‘The Fifth Debate and the Emergence of Complex International Relations Theory: Notes on the Application of Complexity Theory to the Study of International Life’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 20(3), 435 – 454.

Kavalski, E. (2015), ‘Complexifying IR: Disturbing the “Deep Newtonian Slumber” of the Mainstream’ in E. Kavalski (ed), World Politics at the Edge of Chaos. State University of New York Press. 253-271.

Kavalski, E. (2015), ‘What Next for the Study and Practice of World Affairs’ in E. Kavalski (ed), Encounters with World Affairs (Ashgate): 415-423.

Kavalski, E. (2015), ‘The European Union and India: Birds of a Feather or Frenemies for Ever?’ in P.Winand, A. Benvenuti and M.Guderzo(eds), The External Relations of the European Union. Peter Lang. 151-166.